2004 House Bill 5517 ↩

House Roll Call 725: Failed

The first House-Senate conference report for the Fiscal Year (FY) 2004-2005 General Government budget. This version was rejected because it mistakenly did not include a provision of a verbal agreement between legislative leaders. This would strip out a provision inserted by the Senate prior to the August 2004 elections, threatening a five percent cut to Detroit's revenue sharing payments if the city adopted a citizen initiative legalizing medical marijuana. The initiative passed, but is not expected to have any practical effect, since the state marijuana laws remain on the books. See second conference report for details on the final general government budget.